Index_B

B

B1–3, 32-36, 59, 93, 156, 262, 263

Bacchus, F., xiv, 116, 188, 329, 393, 429-430

Bar-Hillel, M., 10, 117

Barto, A. G., 10

basic likelihood formula, see likelihood formula

basic probability assignment, see mass function

basic probability function, see mass function

basic set, 15, 56

basis, 15, 91, 223, 279

Bayesianism, 65

Bayesian network, 5, 121, 132-143, 145, 147, 148, 188

qualitative, 132-143

quantitative, 135-139, 141-142

Bayes' Rule, 79-81, 94, 96, 97, 116, 177

Bayes, T., 65

BCS, 339-342, 346-357, 358-359, 360-361, 362, 364

Markovian, 359-361, 364

reliable, 342, 350, 354, 357

BCS1–3, 339-342, 348, 364

belief, 5, 6, 247, 288-292

semantics, 319, 320, 387

belief-change system, see BCS

belief function, 4, 11, 32-40, 42-43, 51, 52, 55, 59-60, 63, 67, 85, 103, 110, 114, 118, 119, 144, 186, 261, 262, 279, 284, 298, 303

captures evidence, 88

conditional, 92-95, 111-112, 117-118, 127

corresponding to mass function, 36

expectation for, 155-160, 186, 277-278

and Jeffrey's Rule, 107

belief functions, reasoning about, see reasoning about belief functions

belief network, see Bayesian network belief revision, 7, 331-364

belief set, 341, 342-354, 356-358, 361

belief structure, see structure, belief

belief update, 364

Belnap, N. D., 283

Benthem, J. F. A. K. van, 393

Benvenuti, P., 186

Bernoulli, J., 64

bias (of a coin), 18, 25, 39, 73, 84

Bierce, A., 121, 239

Billingsley, P., 64

Blackburn, P., 283

Blume, L., 119

Bonanno, G., 285

Boole, G., 65

Borel, E., 66

Borodin, A., 187, 188

bounded domain, see domain, bounded

bound variable, see variable, bound

Boutilier, C., 364

Brafman, R. I., 394

Brandenburger, A., 119, 328

Bult, F. von de, xiv

Burgess, J., 329